The deadly Swine flu!!!!

^^^ Ron Paul is the best, I wish more people were willing to listen to what he had to say. The damn flu virus already seems to be leveling off. I don't understand how 150 deaths in Mexico is getting everyone in such a frenzy. It appears it isn't even killing people in America.

I couldn't help but laugh yesterday, The Morning Show (or something like it) interviewed a family with it. The symptoms they describe are the flu... I feel like I'm going to die every time I get a flu virus.

I could probably list hundreds of things with a higher death toll than this flu, yet know one worries about contracting them. Many of them we've probably never even heard of.

Flat out crap to the highest degree. They are just trying to sell tamiflu and increased surveillance. I heard one anchor (FOX News) say that an antibiotic can cure the virus, which tells me they didn't research properly, as antibiotics don't do anything to viruses. Also it is a combination of swine, avian, and human influenzas? And they say there's no evidence that it isn't natural? If it's real it must have come from a laboratory, and they aren't telling the whole story. I smell one big pile of shit. Oops I'm downwind of Arlen Specter. Anyway, watch for travel restrictions, casualty figures reported, but no stories on individual victims of the flu. (Just read the post above that a family was interviewed. I stand corrected.) In other words, you will never actually meet anyone who got sick from it. That's my prediction. Oh and I think most people are scaredy enough to lay down prostrate before our government and beg for a butt-reaming to keep them and their children from the certain death that awaits if they continue living a regular free life. Because everyone knows viruses respect laws and physical barriers. Ehh I'm crazy. I don't think the government will use this as a pretense to enact their plans to put everyone in labor camps. Thinking that would be nuts, and I should probably be locked up if I actually believed that.

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Originally Posted by headshake

if you think about it humans are pretty much a virus too. we take and take and figure out new ways to take what's best for us and when we start to run out then we'll figure out a new way to make some more or try to colonize another planet to get what we need.

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Exactly! Like Agent Smith :cool: said:

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Originally Posted by Agent Smith

I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.

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Originally Posted by psychocat

IMO
The human race is long overdue a good old natural cull.

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When it reaches Old Durham town let me know and i will head off over the border to bonnie Scotland.:hippy:

Well this morning the first headline is " toddler dies in texas from the swine flu" Now let the panic begin. Most certainly this will only fuel the panic even more.

It is unbelievable how the press is blowing this whole thing out of proportion. here are some facts from the CDC.

The annual average death toll in the United States from Influenza is 36,000 American's, mostly the very young and elderly. I don't here the press telling us that. So far this strain of the flu is no more dangerous than the other more common strains, thank god.

Maybe its a distraction so we don't pay attention to the torture issue.

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Originally Posted by killerweed420

Maybe its a distraction so we don't pay attention to the torture issue.

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Could very well be... Funny how it's reported as the "torture issue", and not a "war crimes investigation"...


Still can't understand what's going on here... seems to be over-hyped at this point, unless they are lying about the deaths and people who are sick. I'd be more afraid of the vaccinations than the flu :wtf:

A little article I ran across to put this in perspective.
C/P

Source: OpEdNews

OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion...

Baxter, an International pharmaceutical company based in America, has just been caught mixing live Avian Flu virus (H5N1) with common flu virus, in a flu vaccine. Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau Austria was the facility that shipped the contaminated flu vaccine to other facilities in the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany. The incident was discovered by a technician in a facility in the Czech Republic, who injected ferrets with the vaccine as a normal test procedure. The ferrets died.

Let that sink in. If not discovered by a mid-level technician, many of the people immunized with the Baxter vaccine might have been infected with avian flu, which can be deadly.


But it’s worse than that. H5N1 is not easily transmissible between people. However, the common flu virus that it was mixed with does easily infect people. The real danger in this incident is that the two viruses could have mixed genetic material and mutated when injected into tens of thousands of people, and could have created a hybrid virus that was both deadly, and transmissible.

http://boards.cannabis.com/current-e...flu-virus.html<--posted that a while back... nobody cared :(

Oh yeah, they will be making the new vaccine for the swine flu :thumbsup:Baxter working on swine flu vaccine :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Business

and what virus did they mix it with? each strain of the flu is like a strain of bud. once you've had a version of the flu you (almost) always never get that strain again. that's the way vaccines work.


-shake

And in a lot of the cases the cure is worse than the disease.

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Originally Posted by Galaxy

U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection
(As of April 28, 2009 11:00 AM ET)
confirmed cases
California 10 cases
Kansas 2 cases
New York City 45 cases
Ohio 1 case
Texas 6 cases
TOTAL COUNT 64 cases

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Add Minnesota to i heard on tha news there are some cases in st. cloud "college up there".


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~BudG~:rastasmoke::rastasmoke:

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Originally Posted by headshake

the interesting part to me is that humans have been known to get a flu virus from swine, but it almost never gets passed to another human!

weird. and they say evolution didn't happen.


-shake

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Swine flu has nothing to do with swine or pigs.

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Originally Posted by bigtopsfinn

Something else to look at is who the virus is actually killing. If it's elderly people and children like most, or if it is killing healthy young adults, like the 1918 virus...

This shit just sounds sooooo sketchy to me. A human flu + bird flu (which baxter has been playing around with Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus | Canada | News | Toronto Sun) + swine flu.... all together??? I think there is a chance that this was man-made :wtf:

Hopefully this thing goes away like all the others did, but so far it's not like the bird flu which seemed more isolated. Now this thing is in North America, New Zealand, Spain, Israel...

Well, probably not much to worry about since it's Baxter to the rescue! Ill-based Baxter working on swine flu vaccine: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money

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Im not one to get into conspiracies but the fact that it is all three mixed in one does sound etchy to me... Didn't Chavez call us swine???:wtf:
Im not fearful just yet, but the more I hear about it...

I'm covered :D

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a little somthing that came to light for me yesterday. the number of deaths from this flu in mexico was at 120, cases were at 2500. this was on a world map showing all the countrys, but mexicos numbers i noticed had these little tiny astricks next to them wich read 120 deaths: 17 confirmed, 103 suspected . 2500 cases 135 confirmed the rest suspect. so the acual number of cases and deaths are far lower than from what ive seen on my tv.

information is from thursday april 30 edition of the Advocaate. this is the baton rouge news paper.

swine flu no worse than regular flu, say US officials.

lol. go figure.


-shake

Knew it....

Well... seems to have been a big hype... again... at least with respect to the actual flu. I know there are some Finns quarantined in a hotel in Hong Kong still, and you probably heard about all the preparations all the countries were making (Killing all the pigs in Egypt really gets me...:mad:).

But, perhaps the media and governments were acting with the public's best interests in mind. Trying to warn us of the dangers in advance so we can go buy Tamiflu, and preparing for mass quarantines and shutting down cities, like they did in Mexico City. :wtf:

# CNN Story Highlights
# Swine flu getting focus, but so far it's not deadly in United States
# Since January, more than 13,000 have died of complications from seasonal flu
# Worldwide annual death from the flu estimated between 250,000 and 500,000
# About 9 out of 10 flu deaths are among people older than 65

I love the way the goverments have some folk acting like chickens minus thier heads.

I love when fate doesn't take a long time to prove me right.

7 confirmed cases in North Carolina. 6 in Craven county 1 was a school kid and closed the school for a week to disinfect. 1 in onslow county. No deaths reported.

It's just something to keep our minds off the US and world economy. Let see flu and maybe death or the basturds putting us in the hole by the trillions. They are killing us either way.

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Originally Posted by LOC NAR on probation

It's just something to keep our minds off the US and world economy. Let see flu and maybe death or the basturds putting us in the hole by the trillions. They are killing us either way.

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Right on man:rastasmoke::hippy: